Urdu, Hindi: Small h (ہ) ending while spelling Indic words

In Urdu there are many Persian and Arabic words that end in the small h (ہ). There are also a number of "Indic" words that seem to end in the same letter (small h) and at other times I see their variant with an alif (aa) ending.

Indic and English words should end in an alif and the use of a ہ for these is (or at least should be) considered wrong. (This was discussed many times in a television program, after which the host said that a few Urdu newspapers took notice and became more careful with spelling of words like thaanaa, rikshaa, bharosaa, etc.)

Indic and English words should end in an alif and the use of a ہ for these is (or at least should be) considered wrong. (This was discussed many times in a television program, after which the host said that a few Urdu newspapers took notice and became more careful with spelling of words like thaanaa, rikshaa, bharosaa, etc.)

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Did the host also say that those Indic words which end with an "-h" should also be written with an alif (long a, "-aa")?

Did the host also say that those Indic words which end with an "-h" should also be written with an alif (long a, "-aa")?

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Excuse the ambiguity in the previous post. No, those should obviously be written with a -h, but what was pointed out was the fact that Indic words that are supposed to end in an alif are written with a he to make them appear like/resemble Arabic/Persian/Urdu words...that then sometimes leads to things like qaabil-e-bharosah, (which as discussed in this forum would be considered wrong in Urdu).

Alfaaz saahab- Is the host's claim validated by the well-known dictionaries? Curious how these spellings became so widespread. Adding aa to some of these just does not "sound" right. For example, taaNgah in writing would be read typically as taaNga which sounds right at least to my ears. Making it taaNgaa would sound a bit excessive. Do we have other sources validating the TV host views?

Thank you for the citations, here, there and everywhere. As I said I don't remember seeing these written with a final -h. What I should have added was that this was in reputable printed materials. The net is a very useful source of information and knowledge but one has to be careful about the accuracy of some of the material. I am not a great fan of the Urdu LuGhat although it is a good source of first usages.

In Urdu Ghazal poetry, a word like xazaanah can rhyme with aanaa, jaanaa. Sometimes for the sake of aesthetics, words are made to match as is the case of the Ghazal cited above, the words being Thikaanah and xazaanah.

^ I think the -h ending in baarah does seem material and somewhat different from the rest (thanks to Chhaatr for highlighting it). It is preserved in extensions like baarhwaaN (twelfth), and it does not decline to baare like saaraa/saare.

Both the Indic Thikaanaa/Thikaanah and Arabic xazaanah do decline as Thikaane and xazaane, and lose the ending "h" in plurals ThikaanoN and xazaanoN. So practically there is no difference between them linguistic usage, except for source language. The final vowel measure for the two seems the same to me as well. It would be odd to hear someone say xazaanah in spoken language, as too would Thikaanah be. So the -h ending just seems a short vowel convention to me. Your mileage may vary.

Edit: For completeness sake, adding Persian bahaanah to the examples Thikaana[a|h] and xazaanah as it behaves similarly in terms of declension and plurals.

^ I think the -h ending in baarah does seem material and somewhat different from the rest (thanks to Chhaatr for highlighting it). It is preserved in extensions like baarhwaaN (twelfth), and it does not decline to baare like saaraa/saare.

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In fact, UM, in spoken Hindi, it is quite often declined: I hear both "baarah baje" and "baare baje", to take an example.